PLAYLIST
Building
Radio Bridges – Audio Letters between Lockdown NYC
and
the Zambezi Valley
a
collaborative exchange by Brooklyn College students at the City
University of New York
– members of Sinazongwe
Community
Radio
Station
Zongwe
FM in Sinazongwe, Zambia – members of the women’s
organisation Zubo Trust in Binga, Zimbabwe; via
Tom
Miller aka
Sonic
Anthropology and Claudia
Wegener aka Radio
Continental Drift (rcd)
co-production
during Coronavirus Lockdown May – July 2020
Total length: 71 minutes 156 MB, 42 tracks (320 kbps)
1. Greetings from
Lockdown NYC (0:56)
by Brooklyn College
Anthropology students
2. Lockdown
Song (0:51)
by Sumayya Begum
3. DJ Mo Zongwe FM
responds to students in NY (2:36)
by Monica
Sianbunkululu aka DJ Mo
4. To Zambia With
Love (1:00)
by Tairice Cash
5. Nelico Mweetwa
Zongwe FM responds to students in NY (0:41)
by Nelico Mweetwa DJ Cibikubantu kuli banyina nkalungu kaamoyo
6. Women and
Fishing (1:04)
by Jennifer Kipnis,
Bijan Mills, Ainon Kazol Hia, Isaar Tahir
7. Bulemu responds
to students about Zubo (fishery) project (1:15)
by Bulemu Mutale
8. Matron Muleya
responds about women fishing in Zim and Zam (1:54)
by Matron Muleya
9. James Teelela
Zongwe FM responds to students in NY (0:58)
by James Teelela
aka DJ Mukkala Ajigwa
10. Call-and-Response
Live (3:39)
by Zongwe FM DJs,
Isaar Tahir, excerpt of rcd Kunstradio piece 2019
with Zubo women, Chiza
Mwinde, Abbigal Muleya; music: Valerio Orlandini,
Valerie Vivancos in
Radio-Bridge Remix Compilation 2018
11. Why
Radio? (0:58)
by Brooklyn College
Anthropology Students
12. Nelico & James
Zongwe FM respond to students on women’s groups (0:48)
by Nelico Mweetwa, James Teelela
13. DJ Nono Zongwe
FM responds to students in NY (1:31)
by Nosiku Mundia
aka DJ Nono
14. Zubo Song
recorded by Lucia Munenge with Virginia Mwembe (1:31)
by Lucia Munenge –
Zubo Radio
15. Why Recordings? (Audio-Anthropology-Basimbi-Remix) (1:40)
by Sabrina Tellez, Lucia Munenge with Ester Muleya (Chilimba) and
Virginia
Mwembe, Regina Munkuli (Girl’s Lullaby), Labecca Munkuli (recorded
by Margaret)
16. An Open Invitation to “Africa’s 54” Podcast (2:27)
by Shamiso Tunduwani (background: Zubo Song)
17. The Challenges of Water (2:06)
by Lucia Munenge, Julie Ann Tupper, Chiza Mwinde (“Her Story of
Rocks”);
music by Ilpo in Radio-Bridge Remix Compilation 2018
18. Your Favorite Rock (0:51)
by Connor Fitzgerald
19. Nelico & James Zongwe FM respond to students on Lake
Kariba (1:47)
by Nelico Mweetwa, James Teelela
20. Zubo’s Matron Muleya responds to students on
similarities (2:05)
by Matron Muleya
21. Faces of Nyami Nyami (3:54)
by Algassimou
Diallo, Hilda Lema, Anam Javed, Shamiso Tunduwani
22. Zubo’s Matron
Muleya responds to students on similarities (2:03)
by Matron Muleya
23. Neighbours and
Other Strangers (2:02)
by Shamiso
Tunduwani
24. Mutinta Mukuwa
responds to students in NY (2:36)
by Claudia Wegener
25. Notes from the
Field (Antenna Garden mix) (0:55)
by Shamiso
Tunduwani, Hilda Lema
26. Why
Birds? (1:46)
by Brooklyn College
Anthropology Students
27. PLANO remix,
Zimbabwe birds, women and rain making (1:29)
by Gogo aka Thembi
Ngwabi, music: Rebuilding PLANO by Anna Stereopoulou
28. Symbols,
Meanings and Community (1:48)
by Shamiso
Tunduwani
29. Anthropology in
the Time of Coronavirus (3:34)
by Tom Miller
30. Roads and
Herons (0:51)
by Anna Kowalski
31. A Piece of Song
(0:53)
by Alvin Huang
32. Through My
Window ( 0:53)
by Naomie
Monestime
33. Notes from the
Pandemic (2:00)
by Brooklyn College
Anthropology Students
34. Bulemu Mutale
responds to students in NY from Germany (1:10)
by Bulemu Mutale
35. COVID-19 and
Hope (4:04)
by Ziping Chen, Johnny Han, Kevin Ramsaroop
36. Lindatumune
Nyono Mudimba responds to students on COVID-19 (1:21)
by Linda Mudimba,
music: Crystal DJ Kwe Favel from 2016 Album “Radio
Remixes Voices of
Binga”
37. Words and
Community (0:41)
by Kaitlin Torres
38. Nelico & James
Zongwe FM responds to students on COVID-19 (1:45)
by Nelico Mweetwa,
James Teelela
39. Sikakonze
(Lizard Buzzard Song) – Antenna Garden mix (1:37)
by Tairice Cash,
Tom Miller
40. Nelico & James
Zongwe FM sign-off to students in NY (0:12)
by Nelico Mweetwa,
James Teelela
41. Donor Ncube translates Nelico’s proverb (0:34)
by Donor Ncube and
her daughter
42. Lockdown Song
(Echo) – Antenna Garden mix (1:19)
by Sumayya Begum,
Naomie Monestime, Alvin Huang
Produced by Tom
Miller for Sonic Anthropology: #1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 16, 18, 21,
23, 25-26, 28,
30-33, 35, 37
Produced by Claudia
Wegener for radio continental drift: #3, 5, 7-10, 12-15,
17, 19-20, 22, 24,
27, 34, 36, 38, 40, 41
Produced by Tom
Miller for Antenna Garden: #25, 39, 42
Bird samples: Field
recordings selected and rerecorded by Brooklyn College Anthropology
Students from the Macaulay Library @ Cornell Ornithology Lab
for further information on the students' initial project and Dr. Tom Miller's project review interview, please see also: